What is "welenchiti"

Welenchiti (also transliterated Wolenchite and Aualancheti) is a town in east-central Ethiopia. Located in the Misraq (East) Shewa Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a longitude and latitude of and an elevation of 1436 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Boset woreda.

Welenchiti is served by a railway station on the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway. The town also holds a Saturday livestock market.

Welenchiti is home to one of the 66 congregations of the Emmanuel church, a network of former Ethiopian Orthodox believers who have left the church due to unresolved questions or issues over traditional practices, and which has received the support of Meserete Kristos College. This group has clashed with traditional believers since its creation in the early 1990s. In June 1995, Welenchiti experienced violence between the Ethiopian Orthodox and Protestant churches. Priests of the Ethiopian Church had prohibited Protestants to use its cemetery to bury their dead. In the resulting violence, a gas station owned by Protestants was destroyed.